Welcome to Preserving my Heritage

Welcome to Preserving my Heritage. This site is aimed at helping you care for and preserve your treasures, heirlooms, and works of art, and will be useful for training museum volunteers in basic care of collections. It also provides information about the fascinating world of heritage conservation and the work carried out by the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI). The Preserving my Heritage site features:

A How to Care for... section that contains practical information on how to preserve your personal collections.

Amazing Facts, and Fun Zone sections that offer fun and informative insights into the practice of conservation — from the clever use of unusual equipment and materials to technologies adapted from other scientific and technical areas.

A Before and After Gallery that demonstrates how CCI has restored paintings, textiles, and many other museum objects to their former beauty while stabilizing them to prevent further deterioration.

Information on... conservation, careers in conservation, and CCI.